The efficacy of acupuncture in relieving postoperative pain in patients with low simple anal fistula: Protocol of a prospective, randomised, controlled trial

• Min Yang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-5263-2506

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• De Zheng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: De Zheng, Zubing Mei

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zd1232@sina.com (DZ); herrmayor@126.com (ZM)

  Affiliations Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

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• Xingtao Jin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Huili Tang,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Weiwei Cao,

  Roles Resources, Software

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Qianqian Ye,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Yin Qu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China

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• Zubing Mei

  Contributed equally to this work with: De Zheng, Zubing Mei

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zd1232@sina.com (DZ); herrmayor@126.com (ZM)

  Affiliations Department of Anorectal Surgery, Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China, Anorectal Disease Institute of Shuguang Hospital, Shanghai, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6823-7205

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